Jesse day 11

4/6. I felt like it was an easy, yet hard to defend day. 

1. In 1938, innkeeper Ruth Graves Wakefield invented a cookie recipe using small pieces of semisweet chocolate in a brown-sugar dough. What name did she give to these cookies, after the Massachusetts inn she and her husband owned (and in whose restaurant the cookies were first made)?
Correct Answer: TOLL HOUSE COOKIES
Your Answer: Toll House
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

It was the first thing that popped into my head and seemed right. 

2. A 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue led eventually to the foundation of what republic in 1804?
Correct Answer: HAITI
Your Answer: Haiti
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

The only sucsseful slave revolt I could think of off the top of my head that led to a republic being formed. The timing was right too. 

3. The "Bridal Chorus" (aka "Here Comes the Bride"), the march often played at weddings during the bride's formal entrance, is from an 1850 opera by whom?
Correct Answer: RICHARD WAGNER
Your Answer: Puchini
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Interesting, I had no idea it was Wagner. 

4. Novelist Gillian Flynn, a former feature writer and television critic for Entertainment Weekly, has penned three full-length novels, all of which have two-word titles, and all of which have been adapted into full-length films or television miniseries. Give any one of these three titles.
Correct Answer: SHARP OBJECTS, DARK PLACES, GONE GIRL
Your Answer: Killing Eve
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nope!

5. The Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets are all based on the 22-letter, consonant-only alphabet of what ancient civilization originally situated in modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, whose people spoke a Semitic language similar to Hebrew?
Correct Answer: PHOENICIAN
Your Answer: Phonecian
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I remember this both from reading sections of the World Book Encyclopedia when I was young and I think Civilization 1 had this info too when you discovered alphabet. 

6. A pioneering art-rock band whose earliest lineup included a Bryan and a Brian, the biggest pop duo to emerge from Sweden in the late 1980s, and the 1978 major-label debut single by a multimillion-record-selling rock trio all have names that begin with what three letters?
Correct Answer: ROX
Your Answer: Rox
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3  

I knew the first one was Roxy Music. Roxanne confirmed it for me.